ChanΒ Son
Frontend Engineer at NAVER FINANCIAL
Gyeonggi, South Korea
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RockstarChan Son is a seasoned Frontend Engineer with 11 years of experience leading front-end teams at NAVER and NAVER FINANCIAL, specializing in high-performance web services across finance, e-commerce, and media. He combines hands-on development with technical leadership, driving FE platforms, performance optimizations, and developer education for large-scale consumer products. An active open-source contributor and former Microsoft MVP (2018β2020), Chan has made notable contributions to widely used projects like egjs-flicking (serving millions daily), egjs-infinitegrid, and iscroll, focusing on refactoring, bug fixes, and reliable releases. His background in enterprise Java architecture gives him a strong systems perspective that informs pragmatic front-end engineering decisions. Known for shipping maintainable libraries and mentoring teams, he also publishes technical writing and has a track record of improving cross-team developer tooling and mobile web support.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
embla-carousel10
vue-carousel10
bootstrap-carousel10
slick-carousel10
infinite-carousel10
front-end-development10
owl-carousel10
sliders10
web-development10
carousel-slider10
typescript9
css9
typescript-types9
javascript-framework9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cubiq/iscroll
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Smooth scrolling for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 22 PRs, 30 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chan primarily addressed issues and made improvements related to the iScroll library's core functionality. Their contributions focused on fixing bugs and enhancing the scrolling behavior. They updated the code to support and fix various issues, including those related to pointer events, mouse wheel scrolling, and preventing click events when the iScroll is disabled.
smooth-scrollingscrollerscrollscrollingjavascript
naver/egjs-infinitegrid
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 221 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Chan made significant refactoring changes to the InfiniteGrid project. These changes involved modifying the core structure and implementation of the infiniteGrid module. The user was also involved in updating and modifying manual test files, demo files, and core JavaScript utility and image-loaded files.
egjsgrid-layoutvuedom-recycleelements
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